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From: miller@uiucdcs.UUCP (miller )
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Subject: Re: moondust & creationism - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 24-Oct-83 04:28:26 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 24 04:28:26 1983
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uiucdcs!miller    Oct 24 02:19:00 1983

This is an interesting coincidence!  I have just recently started investigating
the history of the deep moon dust theories myself.  Although much of what you
said is correct (e.g., Neil Armstrong's "That's one small step..." was indeed
original), there are still a few things you left out.  The deep lunar dust
theories, although not in a majority opinion by 1969, was still a very real
concern for the Apollo 11 crew.  I took it upon myself to write to Mr.
Armstrong recently.  He confirmed this fact (I have the letter at home).  I
also have a NASA technical report at home (1965 I think) in which dust influx
is calculated by training radar on a sky window.  This was done for several
years apparantly while they monitored size and frequency of particles entering
the earth's upper atmosphere in order to calculate accumulation rates.  Based
on this and the assumed age of the earth/moon system, their fears seemed quite
legitimate.  So, Dr. Brown's comments do raise an interesting paradox.  I wish
I could comment more, but 1) all my material is at home; 2) I still haven't
read it all yet; and 3) it's 2:17am.